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The pandemic revealed the fractures, biases, and inadequacies of our social systems. Education was not immune.

Critical Atlas of Internet

Authenticity simply can’t survive this environment of constant performance – we become alienated from our own actions when every moment is filtered th

The Changing Face of Compute

The internet is already over

Bret Victor, beast of burden

Bret Victor, beast of burden

"There are no solutions in life, only tradeoffs." — Thomas Sowell

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it,

It was only because I showed up and I paid attention," he said. "I looked for places to go. I looked for communities to join. I looked for ways to bec

Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal—dConstruct Conference Talk

ubiquitous connectivity and our media environments naturally lend themselves toward an influencer-and-fandom dynamic. If the system is built to inspir

In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but n

…and look. I think that it is perfectly reasonable for people to be normal music fans and to have a normal relationship to music. But…if you want to g

In working so hard to become independent, we forget how much satisfaction we get from the sense that others depend on us, and the meaning we can creat

It’s hard to talk about “masterpieces” because the concept trades on a theory of aesthetics that is controversial when spelled out (aesthetic value re

The inhabitants of /lit/ see themselves as the victim of anti-canon efforts, as the academy has sought to “decolonise” and expand the curriculum over

A reading revolution is taking place on this notorious message board, most famous for alt-right memes, anything-goes chatter, and large-scale coordina

It's not even optimistic to say we have to try, it's just necessary. To give up, to stop trying, is to accept that things can't change. As Audre Lorde

freedom is less about options, and more about self-discipline. True freedom means cultivating a self-governance that frees you from your inclination t

Pennies and deutsche marks disappear, languages cease to be spoken, and once-popular technologies are abandoned. Over time, many hieroglyphs, wax cyli

To anyone in love with the precious, fleeting things of this world, resistance to disappearance seems natural and proper.

Digital Object ApplicationsFor the first time in human history, blockchains empower any digital object to enjoy the properties of verifiable scarcity,

most of success comes from doing the mundane and often distasteful stuff, like identifying and dealing with problems and pushing hard over a long time

Viktor Frankl wrote dozens of books, but only one,  Man’s Search For Meaning,  was not aimed at commercial success. Frankl wrote  Man’s Search For Mea

How to Be Successful

Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”